QA Performance Engineer

 

Who we are, what we are doing?

 

• Language Cloud is a SaaS platform developed by SDL that exposes as a service the best of our language capabilities and of the language expertise that made us leaders in the translation industry.

 

• We are building Language Cloud in a microservice architecture using Java and C#. Our engineers are familiar with multiple build and deploy pipelines. We implement Continuous Delivery by using tools like Chef, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus and deploying our services on a hybrid cloud offered by NTT and AWS.

 

What you’ll be doing:

• Review the application requirements, functional design and architecture to come up with comprehensive performance test strategy
• Conduct Proof of Concept for engineering and testing tools, and demonstrate feasibility of implementing the solution, with business justifications and/or value-add to the organization
• Provide/support tuning recommendations. Work with development teams to test and implement recommendations
• Be individual contributors capable of taking up tasks from start to end with minimal assistance
• Determines requirements for test environments, test data, test infrastructure, and tools and coordinates with Project Teams
• Provide regular summary status. Heap Dump and Thread Dump analysis
• Provide testing assistance to the product teams for the creation and execution of performance and load tests for newly developed functionality

 

What we’re looking for:

• Relevant experience in performance testing and analysis in Linux and Windows environments. Shell scripting
• Experience with load testing tools like JMeter, WebLoad, Load Runner.
• Experience with API performance/load testing
• Experiences on Performance Engineering, profiling and tuning experience, including experience working with application-performance-monitoring tools such DynaTrace, AppDynamics etc.
• Ability to adapt and learn quickly in a complex and dynamic environment
• Strong written, oral & presentation skills
• Ability to write SQL queries, SQL programming
• Ability to identify and troubleshoot issues at all levels including operating system, component, database, network

 

What makes you a great fit:

• 3+ years of relevant work experience conducting performance testing of highly-scalable applications
• Excellent technical, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to analyze architectures, point out performance bottlenecks, limitations, optimizations and resolutions.
• Understanding of performance monitoring counters such as response time, throughput, latency, and memory
• Should have good understanding of overall process and functional flow